On 2012-01-31, at 11:48 PM, "Göran Krampe" <goran at krampe.se> wrote:

> On 02/01/2012 06:17 AM, Colin Putney wrote:
>> 2012/1/31 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com
>> <mailto:eliot.miranda at gmail.com>>
>>
>>    A good challenge would be to reimplement ANT (a Java application) in
>>    Squeak/Pharo.  That would force us to address real weaknesses.
>>
>>
>> I can vouch for this. I wrote Filesystem because trying to write Mason
>> using FileDirectory was too painful.
>
> AFAIK this has already been done by Keith Hodges (for Squeak building -
> not general building) in multiple layers (Bob the Builder, Sake etc):
>
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Bob.html
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Packages.html
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Sake.html
>
> ...but perhaps you meant for "generic software building".

Yeah, I tried Sake, but it didn't meet my needs.

Colin